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Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
A NEW RAILROAD.

We see that charter has been taken out
for railroad In which Wichita is interest
cd. but in (which, for wonder, the name
of no Wichita man figures The following
particulars we find in the Commonwealth
of yesterday:
Articles of incorporation were yesterday
filed in the office of the secretary of state
by the ''St. Louis, Wichita, HAYS CITY &
Southwestern Railway company" The
object of this corporation is to build, equip
and operate standard guage railroad from
railroad connection with St. Louis. Mis-
souri,, and Wichita, Kansas. through the
counties of Sedgwick. Reno, Stafford. Rice.
Barton. Rush, Ellis, Rocks, Phillips, Ora
ham, Norton and Decatur in the state of
Kansas, to railroad connections in the state
of Nebraska. HAYS City is named AS the
principal place of transscting the business
of the company which is organized for =
term of ninety nine years and with a can.
ital stock of $2,000,0 900 in 10000 500
shares.
There are fifteen members of the board
of directors. as follows: VIM. Warden.
Aust Corbin and lisa Williamson. of Penn.
sylvsnia; H. j. Roetzel and E. l.. Chap
man, of Barton county, Kansas; A G..
Ssnderson, of Rocks county; John Bissell,
Of Phillips: W. r. Hill, Of Graham: L. X.
Pratt, of Norton, and A. L. Pstchcn. of
Decatur county, Kansas.
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
HOPE THEY MAY COME.

The EAGLES invitation to the represent
alive men of Kansas, now busy making
new laws and amending and repeating old
ones at the Capital of the state, to visit the
representative city of Kansas, has been
officially seconded by our authorities and
By tie officers of the Board of Trade. We
hope our solons may find it convenient
and agreeable to make us such visit and
at some time previous to their final adjourn
ment. They are assured that they will
find the biggest and in every respect the
most metropolitan town west of the Mis-
souri,. town all inside Of Kansas, too, well
governed but lively, moral but widewake,
ambitious but hospitable, earnest but not
cranky However elated each individual
member may become before saying his
good bye, we guarantee, and all stories 10
the contrary, that from the governor down
to the assistant doorkeeper of the House.
every man shall be returned to the capital
duly sober and TO his duties with his
hardly earned salary intact
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
EVERYBODY SING"
To the Editor OF the Eagle.

To tite f,iltcr or the Eagle.
HAzELTON, Kan, Feb 4, 1887.
Hazclton is rejoicing over the fact that
| the Fort Scott railroad people will finish
laying track into this place tomorrow, and
It's then that Haze!ton will have direct COM
munication with the great city Of the state
Of Aansas-Wichita OF course some old
fogies argue that we are getting too many
| railroads in this particular part of the state,
but the masses of the people know and
agree that competition is the back bone of
business in all its various forms.
Hazelton is situated sixty miles south
west Of Wichita ut the junction of the two
popular railroads, Fort Scott and Kansas
Southern. She has class of wide awake
business men, and men that know that any
thing which is worth doing is worth doing
well. The buildings that are now in
course of erection go to show this, though
they are now completing ine three story
brick school building and new NJ. Z.
church which is built of the best brick in
the market. There are other inc build
ings going up too numerous to mention
j. J. Whalon and G. B. Fay are the
lumber dealers of Hazelton. The latter is
one among the many who would love to
see the railroad question agitated through
all this great southwestern Kansas.
w. E. Burleigh, editor of the Hazelton
Express, was called to Medicine Lodge on
business yesterday.
l. G. Peck is in Kansas City on pleasure
and business combined
There is quite a good many of the bust
ness men who get to take semi-occusional
visits to Medicine Lodge How is it boys,
anyhow?
The people throughout all this country
have an abundance Of faith in the CITY of
Wichita, and say that they honestly believe
she will grow in two years to be city of
one hundred thousand inhabitants, and
that the EAGLE will be to the entire state of
Kansas what the Globe Democrat is to the
many towns in the states adjoining us
And the people here claim that while other
towns are booming, remember that Hazel
ton is one among the number
p Y n
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
SIMPLE DEMOCRACY.

There is great cry going up all owe
Kansas touching an inefficient and outra
geous mail service People should not for
get that this is Democratic administration
of Jeffersonian simplicity. 1t is so simple
in fact as to border on the foolish. Among
other things the fool policy has been adopt
ed ty the department of not permitting a
people TO name their own postofficeS. The
result is that there are tlourishing
towns in Kansas, one county seat, where
the name of the town differs from the name
forced upon them for their postoifice. A
writ of mandamus from the supreme court
of the United States might bring some of
the Democratic heads of bureaus 20 their
senses
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
HITS JOHNNY AGAIN.

Senator ingalls, has been interviewed in
Washington. Being asked if he had read
the attacks upon himself in the English
Canadian papers, he said: MY attention
has been called to them The tone of the
editorials in the leading London journals is
a further illustration of the temper of Eng
land and the English people towards Amer
lea and our Institutions. They attempt to
direct the issue from the gravity of the ac-
cusation to the insignificance of the ac-
cuser. The real question is not wheth-
er Mr.. ingalls, is obscure, but whether
his allegations are true or false. No
allusiens to me or my state can distract at
tention from the real principles in contro-
versy. We have been SO submissive, so
forbearing in the past that the world is
coming TO believe us a nation of towards.
There has been such TRANSMISSION of the
dry rot of Anglomania into our social sys-
TEN, such an adoption of the single glass
and the 'aw, the jargon and the raiment of
England, SO much fapdoodle whipsylabub;
tea, custard and nonsense about kindred
blood and the land of Shakespeare and
Milton, that there has been temporary
alteration of the intellect and suspension
of sclf-rcspect on the part of the American
people, who forget that England is the
only enemy we have on the face Of the
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
WICHITA IN JUNE.
And They Cali it a Boom Now

There seems to be disposition upon the
part of some people, and especially Of
newspapers, to attribute Wichita's marked
and phenomenal prosperity to the infu
ences of werked-up boom. If the life
and stir now seen upon our streets, in the
dead of winter, is it to be denominated q
b DOM, what will that of next May and
June be when the excavations for thous
and buildings will be going forward; when
nine miles of new water mains will be
going down; when the dirt of the Rock Is
land, the Midland and Cedarvale and two
or three other roads will be flying;
when thousands of capitalists and men
seeking business locations will be
added to our already crowded streets
Those who call our present life boom
have no proper conception Of what that
other and real boom will be like.
The EAGLE knows of five great and i'm
portant individual and separate booms
which have all been concluded and ar
ranged for, and which will materialize in
the spring-in the early spring. The
EAGLE never held out false promise, and
its editor knows what he is talking about
now, but will talk specifically within nine
ty days. Every interest is absolutely safe,
and all talk to the contrary by other inter
ests and by ether towns is simply crack,
cheap chin music designed to in some
manner hurt Wichita.
Time will toll
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
THE POOR INDIAN LADS.

In obedience to very unequal and un
fair law of the land, the two Indian lads
now confined in our jail are to forfeit their
lives through the strangling moose of the
hangman, day after tomorrow. They are
but boys and the punishment is out OF all
proportion to the offense to which they
stood charged and for which they were
convicted If the power rested in our
hands the sentence would be swiftly ard
unhesitatingly committed. If they are
guilty as charged. as guilty as can be, the
most extreme punishment would be i'm
prisonment for the rest of their lives Poor
bows. Unfortunate race. The oifense for
which they must die has been committed
against the women OF their
race with impunity; and by officials
of the government, by army officers by
Anglo Saxons Of all degrees and for gener-
ations. Where is a single record Of pun
ishment, or even reprimand. We don't
like the complexion of this whole business,
and haven't from the start. There is
God, and the Redman's boy and the Red
woman's child is as dear to their parents as
our own are to us. The offense was great,
but the punishment goes beyond the de-
mands of an eye for an eye, or life for
life-beyond that which is right, beyond
justice, and we wish, heartily, that the
tragedy was fixed for more bloody ground
and with more sanguinary people.
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
THE FAST AND THE WEST
To the Editor of the Eagle.

To the Editor of the Eagle
Farmer Doolittlc seems TO be exercised
over the fact that Senator ingalls, threw
down the gauntlet to "Robber England. "
and is fearful that east snd west will ret
coalesce in the event Of foreign war.
Senator Ingalls, will 60 down to pcs,eri-
ty as the most honored, revered and IA
nous western statesman. because Of the
warrior-fke. courageous attitude he as
sumed on the Canadian fishery question.
Nay, more: let Us honor him as prophet.
His forensic ability was guided by a keen,
prophetic glance that scanned and meas
ured well the political horizon Of the ma
tons future. That speech of Senator In
gals will so firmly unite the Irish bone
and muscle of east and west that should he
(which Is quite probsblel he the Republi-
can nominee for the presidency, it will
place him in the nations executive chair
with the most overwhelming majority ever
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06

To the Citizens Of Wichita and Vicinity.
We wish it known that we have located a
branch nursery at Wichita, and that we
mean business and have come TO stay. We
intend making Wichita distributing point.
We ask for nothing but your patronage.
Parties wanting stock Will do well to take
a look at the samples OF our stock on exhibit
ton at the east end of the iron bridge oppo-
site the Riverside hotel and get our prices.
They will find it to their interest To buy di-
rect from a responsible rurseryInan. especi-
ally home nursery. Avoid buying Of deal
ers and tree Ieddlers We guarantee our
stock to be frst-ciass in every particular
We make speciality Of setting and guaran-
teeing stock. particularly evergreens Our
stock of shaie and ornamental trees and
shrubs is full and complete.
W. c. Shaw and p H. South~ell are our
duly authorized agents, and any Others vno
may hereafter be employed will De Furnished
~ith certificate Of authority under the
nursery seal- Any orders entrusted 20 than
we viii be responsible for. Headquarters ct
the Commercial hotel until further notice
G. 81 FINK & Soy, Props,
Lamar, No, and Wichita, Kan. nur~ertes.
dl1kwGa
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
TO SETTLE 1T.
To the Editor OF the Eagle.

To the Editor OF the Eagle.
To decide a bet which has been left to
me, is Newton in the Arkansas valley.
and is it railroad junction or county
seat2' KIowA.
No, no more or in no other sense than is
yOIr own town or ElDorado or McPher-
son in the Arkansas valley Newton is
situated on the divide between the Cotton
wood and the Little Arkansas, at the head
of small stream called Sand creek. which
empties its waters, when it has any to emp
ty, into the Little Arkansas. Yes. it is a
railroad junction and a county seat
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
HE INITIATES WELL AND TELLS THE
TRUTH.
s Buckeye Editor Reads Copy OF the
Eagle and then Writes.
From the Gallipolis Ohio Bulletin.
WICUITAl


WICHITA!
All over town the talk is Wichital Wich
tia! Wichita. One would think the sun
rose and set at Wichita that it was para
disc regained. and that fortunes were to be
had there for the humblest and most insig-
niticant of Gods creatures by the invest
ment of few dollars. Town lots are laid
off on every farm around the city, and
those fortunate enough to possess one are
asking fabulous price to all new corners.
No one pretends to know why lots in
Wichita should be coveted by the people of
the earth, but it seems to be the fact
nevertheless. They are preferred even to
seats in the New Jerusalem All the rail
roads of the continent are centering there,
and the rivers even would be made to run
by, through and around the coveted spot,
if it were possible The skies are bluer.
the air purer, the sun brighter. the water
clearer, the soil richer the climate finer
the hearts of the people larger, their minds
stronger, their complexion farer, their
women handsomer and winsomer. their ba-
bies bigger and healthier, and the magical
mascot of the sixth meridian is in all
things the pride of the prairies and the
peerless princess of all the plains. Real
estate agents and their drummers travel
up and down on the trains from morn
ing till morning. singing, talking preach
ing, writing, telegraphing, telephon-
ing, advertising and promul eating
the never ending splendor and magniti
cence. which would have made the Queen
of Sheba's heart swell until no patent cor
set in the land would have kept it inside of
its allotted space in her body had she lived
until now TO see it. Over two and a half
millions of dollars have been spent in
building houses there within year. Ev-
cry shop window is adorned with dia-
gram Of lots TO trade, lots to sell, views Of
the North side, the South side. the East
end the West end, the business center, the
suburban villas, the meandering streams
the broad avenues, the stupendous public
buildings, the parks, street railroad lines,
railroad depotS, and above all, blazing like
a star of the Orient, Marsh Murdoch pic
ture, the man from Ironton. Ohio. who
seems to have been the leaven thsi has leav-
ened the whole loaf with his newspaper.
the Wichita EAGLE that has spread
Its wings and carried the news TO all the be
nighted creatures Of America There is
Douglas avenue east for miles, and Doug
las avenue west for miles, down Main.
around Market, out First-all choked and
crammed with business houses that COS;
from 5000 10 $4,000 For miles
north from the business center. for miles
south, and away west for miles, are moth
ing but great. massive, s,upendous struc-
turas for business and for homes. built in
all the known styles of architectare-the
Elizabe;hian. the English Renaissance. the
Queen Anne, tie Tudor, Gothic, Grecian.
Roman, Arabic, and Egyptian. Indeed.
the genius OF architecture seems to have
exhausted itself and fallen into nervous
pros,ration" in projecting, designing
and devisiRg mansions. villas, cot
tsges. portcullises. oc;agona tow
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
BRIDGES OR UNIVERs1TIEs-wH1CH

Some time since The EAGLE suggested
that Wichita would be known as the city
of bridges. Since then anothee bridge has
been completed across the Big River up at
Riverside of which few have ever heard.
This makes, including the South Lawrence
street bridge, seven bridges across the Great
Arkansas. three across the Little Arkansas
and six across Chisholm creek or sixteen
bridges within the corporate limits But
now that a charter has been taken out by
our Quaker friends for an additional uni
verSity, giving Wichita a greater number
of universities than any city in the world,
we may yet be known as the city of uuivei
sites.
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
TREMENDOUS TERRITORY.
From the Leavenworth Times.

From the Leavenworth Times.
Henry Stanley has gone to Africa 10
organize railroad up into the interior
This is another boom for Wichita, as every
foot of that tremendous territory will be
supplied from Wichita A railroad is to
be built from Iarkand, in Asia, to Pobolsll.
This will open up a tremendous trade for
Wichita. Murdoch
Hadn't exactly caught on TO the new en-
terprises mentioned, but we are none the
less pleased tn learn that the projectors as
well as the territory tapped, are alive to the
importance of Wichita connection.
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
Notice to Stockholders.

General Offices Wichita s Colorado Rail
way Company, Wichita, Kan. January
%, 1887.
The annual meeting of stockholders of the
Wichita & Colorado railway company, for
the election of directors for the ensuing
year, and for the transaction of such other
business as may come before the meeting,
will be held at the Office of said company in
the city of Wichita, Kansas, on Wednesday,
the ID day of March next, A. d. 1887, at 10
o'clock a. m, or at any hour thereafter that
a quorum may be present.
j. Fl. RICHARDS, Vice Pres't
6430t Kos HARRIS Secretary
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06

We wish 20 call the attention d tbs public
TO the fact tia. ve have opened frs. class
plumbing. gas ard steam fitting es.abli=a-
rent, and are nou ready 70 furnish plans
and estimates for such work Thes depart
men. will be under the personal supervision
Of Mr. J. Giles Smith. gorTssrSy % Indian
apoi.s, Ind. } who has had years OK expert
ence and Is thoroughly yerssd il roi-rr
sarisary plumbing Our inaenIion l. 20 be
thorough in wha, sc DO. pronp; Il filing
orders. and reasonable IN our charges Give
us trial.
Wichita Plumbing, Pump Ard Supply
company, 81 Douglas ave Zr
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06

The Newton Republican is kindly but
sincerity informed that all its assertions
touching the promises which should have
been made by the EAGLES travelling cor
respondent, and so forth, and so forth, are
simple lies If its editor would like AN
impressive contrast to his article let him
call upon the gentlemen who composed a
certain delegation from Newton few DAYS
since
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06

The Topeka Democrat goes out of its
way to say that Wichita polled bat two
thousand votes at the fall election. We
don't know the why of such misrepresen-
tations, bat the facts are that there is one
ward in Wichita in which live upwards of
two III Ousand legal voters.
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
GIVEN AWAY, GIVEN AWAY,
TMn Gold Matches

| will have to move on Feb. 1st, and every
thing must be sold by that time regardless of
cost. Further in order to show my appre-
citation of the liberal patronage the people of
Wichita and vicinity have bestowed upon
me for the past six years, 1 will give away
on Feb. LIST, two elegant gold watches. Every
purchases OF three dollars worth of goods
will be entitled to ticket.
AGNES SONMER,
rs Douglas ave
Safe, fixtures and show cases for sale.
dEIH
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
j. IT. hICHAKDS, VICE IreS e.
G. BOT. Kos. HARRIS. Secretary

If you want to make money don't forget to
call on S. Drukker & Co., tine live real estate
brokers. They have some good bargains in
Main street lots and property on College
hill. Lots in all parts of the city. Some
good houses, etc, etc. Now is your time to
invest and don't you forget it. No. Isl North
Main street, between Douglas and First
street. dl53t
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06

Books are now open for the second series
in Sedgwick County Building and Loan as
ISOLATION. at Office of Allen, Graham &
Jones, 414 Douglas avenue. All persons
wishing to take stock are requested to call at
6S-6t C. E. JONES, Sec.
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
SPECIAL NOTICES.

The annual meeting of the Sedgwick
County Building and Loan association for
the election Of officers the ensuing year will
be held Monday evening, February Z, 1887
A full attendance of all stockholders is re-
quested. By order Board of Directors.
d6S-5t C. E. JONES Sec'y
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
Garfield University.

Sealed proposals for the stone and stone
work, and also for the laying of the brick
OF the superstructure OF Garfield university
in Wichita, Kansas, will BE received till Feb
ruary 2. 1887.
Plans and specifications will be found in
the rooms of Proudfcet & Bird, architects, in
Wichita All proposals viii be received by
W B. HENDRYx,
President and Business Manager Of the Uni
vsrdty.
Proposals are solicited d55-tt
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
List Of Good RargRipS

Read and drop in w. o. Riddell & Co.'S.
office over the Kansas National bank, No.
13414 Main street, and they will write you a
deed and make you happy as we'll as money
This Office does strictly commission bust
ness and sell straight goods at owners
prices. Read the list, it is good:
50 # Main st bet Walnut and Park. S 5000
Is # N Topeka bet 18th and 18th SITS. 2iO0
80 it Topeka bet Waterman and Lewis $500
100 it Market bet Park and 10th St. $500
IS TT N Fourth bet Sd and Central 1900
80 # n Fourth bet LIST and 2nd ST. . 1900
80 it East Douglas Observation-Disclosures. 1900
100 TT S Emporia bet Morris and KEEL
logg 6OOO
80 it cor of Emporia and English. . 700
80 IT cor of Topeka and Williams. 10000
- # North Topeka 400
soft cor Topeka and English 5000
60 # Central ave east. 900
60 # Central ave east 1900
15 It Central ave east ....... ...... 900
20 # Erie st cor 1st. Observation-Disclosures. l150
90 # cor Oak and Water st - 5000
II lots cor Market and 18th 1900
- It South Lawrence. ......... 1l25
A fine house and IS it y Lawrence. 5000
50 IT cor Emporia and LIST. .... 1900
Four lots here, and four lots there and in
all parts of the city.
W. O. RIDDELL e. Co,
No. 134js over Kansas National bank Main
street. 61-tf
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06

Desiring to build residence in the sub
urbs, offer for sale my home place on cor
ner of Topeka avenue and Second street, $50
feet front d65-6t II. W. LEWIS
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06

Have elegant dining cars attached to all
trains passing through Wichita, which are
under personal supervision of an experienced
caterer, and are supplied at all times with
every luxury the market affords. Try the
Frisco dining cars. d140-tf
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
Cheap Property,

13S feet on South Topeka, $3.50; IS feet,
good house on North Water, 81, 500; 50 feet,
good house, corner Of Lawrence and Lewis,
cheap KINDRED & WILLIAMS,
d6S-3t+ rs East Douglas avenue
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06

Teeth extracted without pain by use of an
improved vitalizsd apparatus. Please call
at room No. 10, Union block, West Douglas
avenue dec 5t*
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06

The sales OF real estate closed up yesler-
day foot up the handsome sum Of So, $40
which is double that of any city in the
state if We except Wichita. Scott
Monitor.
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06

Lewis & Moore. 127 North Main street,
telephone 2ll, will deliver you
| ton Minden or Rich Hill coal for IS %
ton B cAllister coal for. so
ton Anthracite, any size. ............ Is SO
dGS
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
Notice

All former prices on my property are with
drawn For prices call at 303 N. Wabash.
d66-6t* g. L. MUM.
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06

e. c. & L. R. Coles addition to Carey
Park to be sold at auction is attracting
widespread attention. 6s-1St
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06

We have On hand ,uli supply OF Anthra-
cite. McAllisser, Fort Scott. Ainden and
Rich Hill coal, all siD-s-
LEWIS & MoogK.
Te,er,hone 2T1 ass-S. ~ y Main.
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
" heeler's addition.
Business for Sale.

We offer our entire stock and fixtures for
sale or trade for thirty days.
HOLLOwELL & DORIAN,
pa East Douglas ave.
Wichita, Kan, Jan. II, 'S7. d49-1m
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06
For Sale.

For Sale.
A good card cutter in first-class order
Will sell cheap. Enquire at this office dS3-ti
Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06

Cor Room House Wanted.
| want to rent good or room house.
d64tf L. w. CLAPP
Kos Harris Bldg, S. Main st.